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Open Wi-Fi networks: "Requiring registration for the use of Wi-Fi networks or cybercafes could provide an important data source for criminal investigations... There is some doubt about the utility of targeting such measures at Internet cafes only when other forms of public Internet access (e.g. airports, libraries and public Wi-Fi hotspots) offer criminals (including terrorists) the same access opportunities and are unregulated."

Cell phone tracking: "Location data is also important when used by law enforcement to exclude suspects from crime scenes and to verify alibis."

Terror video games: "Video footage of violent acts of terrorism or video games developed by terrorist organizations that simulate acts of terrorism and encourage the user to engage in role-play, by acting the part of a virtual terrorist."

Paying companies for surveillance: "It is therefore desirable that Governments provide a clear legal basis for the obligations placed on private sector parties, including... how the cost of providing such capabilities is to be met."

It's like I'm reading a chapter in some kind of dystopian novel, only it's real. Dear god, how horrifying.

Whenever I see these totalitarian ideas, I wonder if it wouldn't actually be better to support terrorists

I'm not condoning terrorism, but should we condone the stripping of liberties and rights?
are at a certain point the fanatic nutcases a 'lesser evil' that those who claim to 'protect' us?
Will at some point every nation/the world have its own Bin Laden, heralded by the common folk, despised by their governments?

Robin Hoods 2.0?

You don't have anything to fear if you do nothing wrong"

...u-hu, yeh, and WHO's gonna define what's right or wrong?
You, me?
Or the people that don't like you criticizing their 'effort' for a 'safer' place to let your children ("For God's sake, think about the children!" ) grow up in?

The comment about going into space is actually a very good one
Remember the "Land of the Free" was colonized by people trying to get away from the totalitarian "Old World"

US, Aussieland, Belgium, Poland (not genocide, but ethnic cleansing) most of the Western Government has plenty of blood on its hands.

Usually not of their own citizens. Though sometimes they make it so those it is done too are not longer considered citizens.

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Originally Posted by Coldlight

I didn't say that they couldn't engage in cyber warfare or electronic sabotage. I just said they don't make video games.

Developing video games as a form of terrorism would just be a waste of time.

Video game....simulation. Same thing in some cases. You want to give your operatives training on how to get into a government building, or experiance tactical training if you don't have the means to train live....or need to maintain cover...program a simulation to cover the known variables and run it and them though it many many times. Need to plot to run an airplane into a specific building...Flight Simulator time!

(Holodeck technologies would make this even more viable...scary and yet fun at the same time).